The reality of religious experience and its challenges

The reality and the authenticity of religious experiences with regard to conversion may not be necessarily disputed, especially when it has to do with conversion from the other religion to Christianity. This is due to the Christianity’s belief that God still speaks to the hearts of people in mysterious ways. Thus it is Christianity has believed that God speaks to the hearts of the people through dreams, visions, and prophecy. These are indeed psychic experiences replete with conventional stories which later tranformed to conviction, thereby leading to conversion of the persons involved. Thus, at this time vision and dreams are said to bring a repressed conviction to consciousness. And when this takes place, it is always that the persons involved could not be stopped, even when their lives are threatened or their convictions and consciousness being subjected to suppression. However, it has been observed that religious is something, even though that may not disputed against but at the same time not within the confines of experimental verifiability as it is always being a personal experience and encounter with God. Hence, there could be possibility that some persons should use such as a ploy to deceive the unsuspecting and gullible individuals. For instance, many have used it as a reason for undue founding of many religious movement and denominations especially in Christian religion, thus leading unguided proliferation of churches and multiplication of doctrines. However, I still believe that abuse does not negate a relity. Religious experiences leading to conversion are exemplified in the Bible such as that Ethiopian Eunuch, Saul who turned to Paul and so many others.